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German nuclear phase-out policy : effects on European electricity wholesale prices, emission prices, conventional power plant investments and eletricity trade

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2012

The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...

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The impact of policy measures on future power generation portfolio and infrastructure : a combined electricity and CCTS investment and dispatch model (ELCO)

Mendelevitch, Roman; Oei, Pao-Yu - 2015

This paper presents a general electricity-CO2 (ELCO) modeling framework that is able to simulate interactions of the energy-only market with different forms for national policy measures. We set up a two sector model where players can invest into various types of generation technologies including...

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Impacts of the German support for renewable energy on electricity prices, emissions and profits : an analysis based on a European electricity market model

Traber, Thure (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2007

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Do benefits from dynamic tariffing rise? : welfare effects of real-time pricing under carbon-tax-induced variable renewable energy supply

Gambardella, Christian; Pahle, Michael; Schill, Wolf-Peter - 2016

Common intuition holds that retail real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity demand should become more beneficial in markets with high variable renewable energy (VRE) supply mainly due to increased price volatility. Using German market data, we test this intuition by simulating long-run electricity...

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Have state renewable portfolio standards really worked? : synthesizing past policy assessments to build an integrated econometric analysis of RPS effectiveness in the US

Shrimali, Gireesh; Jenner, Steffen; Groba, Felix; Chan, … - 2012

more RES-E deployment. We examine several RPS design features and market characteristics (including REC unbundling, RPS in …

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Effectiveness and heterogeneous effects of purchase grants for electric vehicles

Haan, Peter; Santonja, Adrián; Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2023

We evaluate German purchase subsidies for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) using data on new vehicle registrations in Germany during 2015-2022. We account for confounding time trends and interacting EU-level CO2 standards using neighboring countries...

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Fifty shades of state : quantifying housing market regulations in Germany

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič - 2015

of regulation. The average of class-specific indices make up a composite index. The index reflects dramatic increases in …

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Macroeconomic effects of rental housing regulations : the case of Germany in 1950-2015

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Licheron, Julien - 2017

Despite rather skeptical attitude of the economists toward the state intervention in the housing markets, the policy makers and general public typically are supporting it. As a result, in many European countries, since World War I the rent and eviction controls as well as social housing policies...

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Implications of mandatory registration of mobile phone users in Africa

Jentzsch, Nicola - 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of mobile telephony is attributed to the opening of markets for private players and lenient regulatory policy. However, markets may be increasingly saturated and new regulations...

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Regulation, innovation and technology diffusion : evidence from building energy efficiency standards in Germany

Shagi, Makram el-; Michelsen, Claus; Rosenschon, Sebastian - 2014

The impact of environmental regulation on technology diffusion and innovations is studied using a unique data set of … regulation intensity and apply a panel-error-correction regression model to energy requirements of low and high quality housing …. Our findings suggest that regulation significantly impacts technology adoption in low quality housing. This, in turn …

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